September 23, 2019

So I'm gonna try to get pictures from people today but i can't guarantee anything. There was a festa in Crispiano Friday and Saturday. Crispiano is 5 minutes away from our house and we have members who live there and Mario lives there. It was a cool international festival thing but it starts at 9pm so we couldn't be there for any of it, only the pre-stuff. 

The book of Mormon video series is out! It's awesome everyone should be watching it. We're also hype down here in Puglia for general conference and stake conference. Stake conference is actually a really big thing out here where it has to be held at a hotel in Bari. The stake president goes to Statte ward so we're obviously the best. 

I understand so many people now!! It was kind of a sudden realization where I realized that I understand a lot of what people are saying. Some people its like they're not even speaking Italian but people I couldn't begin to understand I now get a lot of what they're saying. I can actually fully SYL(Speak your language) now. Which means I can just talk and have conversations in Italian. 

We went fishing with Mauricio. It was pretty cool, we used maggots as bait and I found a hermit crab. Mauricio caught a fish that had a fish in its mouth, he threw it back tho because one day someone else will catch it as a bigger fish. It was decently sized already tho. 

We have an American flag in our car for some reason. 

Preston said he's only seen this traffic sign in this one town, and he's asked locals what the sign means and hasn't found anyone who knows. Hahaha. 

This is Padre Pio. He's revered in Southern Italy, and is an interesting character if you care to google him. 

He sent a picture of these because I bought the hazelnut version of the exact same cookies at Ross, and he was doubting whether they were actually from Italy. 

This is a one eyed cat that lives around their apartment. 

Distant pic of the cat. Their apartment is in this building on the 3rd floor.